_ meris of Gotha, from which work this Anal 
* 
£800.] | 
homers had been his correfpondents; it 
cannot be doubted, that he will bring back 
with him important obfervations, and a 
treafure of the moft authentic and accurate 
particulars. His miffion from his fove- 
reign, his perfonal merit, and his name, 
would every where procure him eafy accefs 
and an honourable reception. We hope, 
therefore, to deferve the thanks of our. 
readers, by communicating to them in- 
terefting extragts from fo excellent a pub- 
lication, efpecially as it is written in the 
Danifh language, which is underfteod by 
few in thts country*. 
Mr. Buggé lett Copenhagen on the agth 
of July 1798, and proceeded through 
Seeland, Fuhnen, Schlefwig and Holftein, 
Ofnabruck, Munfter, Wetel, a part of 
Belgium, Lowen, Bruffels, Valenciennes, 
Bouchain, Cambray, Chantilly, to Paris, 
where he arrived on the 18th of Augutt. 
His obfervations are not communicated in 
the form of a diary, but in letters; in 
which all the information which the author 
collected at different times relative to dif- 
ferent objects, is placed colleétively under 
one point of view. 
LETTER I. JOURNEY from COPEN. 
HAGEN 7/0 ALTONA. 
The new high roads in Seeland and 
Fithnen, are. excellent; as even as the 
floor of a room, fo that one pafles along 
them with the greateft convemency. On 
the contrary, the greateft part of the public 
roads in Germany, Belgium, and France, 
are fo roughly paved, that the jolting of the 
carriage but too often becomes almoft in- 
tolerable. In fome places of Seeland threfh- 
ing-machines have been erected, which in 
one hour threfh and completely clean from 
8 to ro tons of corn, and do not in the 
leaft {poil the ftraw. But as they coft 
from 5 to 700 rix-dollars, they are appli- 
cable only to large efiates. ‘The Danifh 
Society of Rural Economy has offered a 
prize for the beft invention of a fimilar 
inachine on a Jefs extenfive (cale, fo as to 
be fit for fmall farms. 
LETTER Il. JOURNEY /ro7t ALTONA fo 
. WESEL. 
Mr. Buggé complains of the flow pro- 
grefs of travellers, by means of the extra- 
poft-coaches in the eleGtorate of Hanover, 
and of the rudenefs and impudence of the 
pottilions. On the contrary, he obferves, 
that numerous plantations of trees in that | 
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* A tranflation of the entire work is inthe 
prefs, and will fpeedily appear, in two vo- 
lumes duodecimo. The fecond volume has 
not yet been noticed in the Geographical Ephe- 
vifis bas 
bcen irunfated, 
Abjira&t of Profeffor Buggé’s fourney to Paris. 
country prove, that there are good regu 
A4?. 
lations relative to the forefts, and that they 
are under the care of intelligent and active 
men. But he found, that there and in 
Ofnabruck agriculture had for the lat 
22 years been very little ameliorated. On 
the contrary, all the provinces of Den- 
mark have, during that period, been con- 
fiderably improved. _ Every where the 
traveller difcovers proofs of the growing 
profperity of the peafantry in that king- 
dom, and agriculture approaches more and 
more to perfection. In) the economical 
hiftory of other ftates no inftance occurs, 
that can bear comparifon witl: the rapid 
progrefs of rural economy in Denmark. 
LETTER Hie JOURNEY from WESEL fa 
BRUSSELS. 
On the extenfive heath behind Gueldres, 
there are many large pieces of ground in-~ 
clofed with hedges, and planted with pines, 
oaks, and birch, which are of differene 
ages. ‘Jhefe excellent plantations, fur- 
pafled in beauty by few in other countries, 
do great honour to the former Pruffian 
Board of Forefts. Places likewife occur 
here, which are diligently cultivated by 
colonitts. 
LETTERIV. STAY 72 BRUSSELS, and 
JOURNEY thence to PARIS. 
The central {chool for the department 
of Dyie, which, as likewife the public 
library, is eftablifhed in the palace of the 
late governor-general, is divided into three 
claffes. In the firft clafs, Prancois teaches 
drawing ; Wanderflegen, natural biltory ; 
Lefbrouffart, the ancient languages: in the 
fecond clafs, Ghiefbreght mathematics ;: 
and Yan Mows, natural philofophy and 
chemiftry: in the third clafs, Henfchling, 
general grammar; Bouille, the belles. 
lettres ; Guz/e, hiftory; and D’ Outrepont 
legiflation. ‘The library was formed trom 
the collections of books belonging to the 
Belgian emigrants and the fuppreffed mo 
nafteries; itis beft fupplied with worksrela- 
tive to hiftory 5 but is not particularly rich 
iu mathematicians and natural hiftorians : 
—the manufcripts are important,e!pecially 
for the elucidation of the hiltory of the 
Netherlands. - Two beautiful copies of 
Cicero and Terence, writtet on parch- 
ment, were fhewn to Mr. Bugeé. Laferno, 
thé librarian, told him that the library 
contained 120,000 volumes ; but this ap- 
peared to be rather too high a number, 
On the road from Bruffels to Paris, Mr. | 
B. faw, indeed, many women and chil- 
dren working in the fields; but could not 
perceive, that there was a conliderable 
deficiency of men. In no country faw he 
the draught-horfes fo unmercifully treated 
as in France. Bouchain is a very ftrong 
particnlar 
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